Month: May 2024

By MOUTA ALI Associated Press N’DJAMENA, Chad (AP) — Chad’s opposition leader says he has filed an appeal with the country’s constitutional council to challenge the preliminary results of the May 6 presidential election. Succès Masra in social media posts has shared a copy of a receipt showing that documents have been filed with the

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Protests against price hikes have continued for the fourth day in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir with demonstrators clashing with the police, officials said. The violence, which gripped the region since Friday, has left at least two people dead, including a police officer, and left a hundred others injured. The prime minister in Pakistan-held

By VANESSA GERA Associated Press WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Refugee rights activists are criticizing Poland’s pro-European Union government for plans to tighten security at the border with Belarus. They are also unhappy that it’s continuing a policy initiated by the previous populist government of pushing migrants back across the border there. The activists organized an

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer WREXHAM, Wales (AP) — Helen Ryvar took up running in 2020 just before Britain went into lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic and after being told her ex-husband had died following a mental-health battle. Four years later she is a world-record holder for consecutive half-marathons and an inspiration to many

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Labor unions in Nigeria staged nationwide have protested a recent increase in electricity prices introduced after the removal of subsidies by the West African nation’s government. The workers who protested across the country on Monday said they are also frustrated that Nigeria’s electricity supply has not improved even for the consumers

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the upper Midwest for the second straight year. Smoke from fires burning in British Columbia and Alberta had settled over parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin by Monday morning. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on

NEW DELHI (AP) — A billboard has collapsed and killed three people and injured 59 in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, in thunderstorms and heavy rain. That’s according to Press Trust of India. Police say scores of people are thought to be trapped after the collapse in the suburb of Ghatkopar. An official says 47 people

By JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — High-level envoys from the United States and China are set to meet in Geneva for talks about artificial intelligence including the risks of the technology and ways to set shared standards to manage it. The meeting Tuesday is billed as an opening exchange of views in an

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal jury in Manhattan is set to hear the criminal case against Archegos Capital Management founder Bill Hwang and his former financial officer, Patrick Halligan. Both have pleaded not guilty to charges that they lied to banks and brokerages, enabling their private investment firm to grow its portfolio from $10

By FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press DENPASAR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian police say they have raided what they call a major drug lab hidden in a villa on the resort island of Bali, and arrested four people. A police spokesperson said Monday that the house’s basement contained facilities for manufacturing ecstasy and a hydroponic marijuana farm.

By BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned of a dangerous future for the U.K. in a pitch to voters ahead of a future national election that could see Conservatives ousted from power after 14 years. Sunak’s speech swung from ominous warning to optimistic projections Monday as he

By ANDREW WILKS Associated Press ISTANBUL (AP) — Greece’s leader has arrived in Turkey’s capital for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the countries pursue a normalization program and seek to put aside decades-old disputes.  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was welcomed in Ankara on Monday by Erdogan and a military guard of honor

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Some police officers have been left injured after a police chase in northern New Jersey that ended when at least two cruisers crashed. The chase began in the wee hours of Monday in Bloomfield when officers tried to stop a sport utility vehicle. The pursuit continued into nearby Newark. That’s where

NEW YORK (AP) — The Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs will open the regular season at home against the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 5 in a rematch of the AFC title game. The NFL will release the entire 2024 season on Wednesday night on the NFL Network. The Chiefs beat the Ravens 17-10 in

By WAFAA SHURAFA, JOSEPH KRAUSS and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food and other supplies to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited operation in Rafah. The two main crossings near the southern Gaza city have been closed

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Artificial intelligence voice-cloning technology carries so many risks of harmful impersonation that major technology companies are wary of letting people use it. But a team of Rhode Island doctors and their 21-year-old patient found that it can also hold tremendous benefits. Alexis Bogan felt she

MOSCOW (AP) — Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court has convicted a former government official of torturing and brutally murdering his wife and sentenced him to 24 years in prison. The trial had gripped the Central Asian nation. Thousands of people during the trial called for harsher penalties for domestic violence, and the authorities adopted a bill toughening

By CIARÁN GILES and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Spain’s ruling Socialist party scored a crucial victory in regional elections in the powerful northeastern region of Catalonia, garnering the most seats and dealing a blow to the region’s two main separatist parties that have governed for decades. But candidate Salvador Illa failed to

By JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish police say the Dutch contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest who was dramatically expelled from the competition hours before the finale will likely be charged for making illegal threats. A police spokesman said on Monday that their investigation into the incident is over and that a

PARIS (AP) — Microsoft has announced its most substantial commitment yet to France. The company pledged on Monday to invest 4 billion euros or $4.3 billion this year to bolster the country’s burgeoning artificial intelligence sector. This move is part of a broader effort unveiled during President Emmanuel Macron’s pro-business Choose France event. The summit

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s planned campaign visit to Minnesota will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state he has long argued he could carry. Trump will take a break from his hush money trial in New York to speak at a Minnesota GOP fundraiser

The man at the center of the pandemic meme stock craze returned to the social platform X for the first time in three years and sent prices of those stocks surging overnight. Keith Gill, better known as “Roaring Kitty,” posted an image on Sunday of a man sitting forward in his chair,  a meme used

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s executive will demand explanations from Eurovision song contest organizers why its flag was banned from the concert hall during the final. In a contest already full of controversy, the European Commission said it plans “a very lively discussion” with the organizers over the ban. Even though the 27-nation EU

NEW YORK (AP) — The events at the center of former President Donald Trump’s hush money case date back almost two decades, with new dates coming to light as the trial plays out in a Manhattan courtroom. Key moments in the case, as described in trial testimony and court documents, begin with allegations from two

By RAHIM FAIEZ Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead. Farmer Abdul Ghani recounted on Monday how he had rushed home from neighboring Kunduz province where he was visiting relatives when he heard about

By SOPHENG CHEANG Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia and China will begin their annual Golden Dragon military exercise this week to strengthen cooperation and exchange military experiences. A Cambodian army spokesperson said Monday that more than 2,000 military personnel from the two countries will participate in the 15-day exercise, joined by three

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The sharp interest rate hikes of the past two years will likely take longer than previously expected to bring down inflation, several Federal Reserve officials have said in recent comments, suggesting there may be few, if any, rate cuts this year. A major concern expressed by

GENEVA (AP) — Eight luxury watches belonging to Formula One great Michael Schumacher are going up for sale at Christie’s. The sale organized by Schumacher’s family features a watch that was given to the German superstar by former Ferrari CEO and motorsports governing body FIA President Jean Todt. It marked the year that Schumacher was

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish media says a curator at the American Museum of Natural History has been detained in Istanbul while allegedly attempting to smuggle spider and scorpion samples. Lorenzo Prendini is an expert on arachnids at the New York-based museum. He was held by police at Istanbul Airport on Monday while allegedly trying to

Associated Press DJENNE, Mali (AP) — Thousands of Malians joined the annual replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali. The building has been on UNESCO’s World Heritage in Danger list since 2016. The mosque and surrounding town

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — The whereabouts of a Chinese citizen journalist who served four years in prison for reporting on the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan and was expected to be released Monday are unknown, raising concern from activists. Zhang Zhan, who had been sentenced to four years in

LONDON (AP) — Booking Holdings, the U.S. company that owns Booking.com and a number of other travel websites, has been added to the European Union’s list of companies now under heightened digital scrutiny. The European Commission, the EU’s executive branch, said Monday that it’s classing Booking Holdings as an online gatekeeper and that the company’s

BERLIN (AP) — A publisher says former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s memoirs will be released in late November, nearly three years after the end of her 16-year tenure at the helm of one of Europe’s biggest powers. Publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch announced Monday that the roughly 700-page volume, titled “Freiheit” (“Freedom”), will be published on

FORT NELSON, British Columbia (AP) — A fire expert is warning that an intense wildfire could hit a town in western Canada, based on forecasts of strong winds that have been fueling the out-of-control blaze, which has already forced the evacuation of thousands. The expert warns the blaze could reach the town of Fort Nelson

DETROIT (AP) — Amazon’s self-driving robotaxi unit is being investigated by the U.S. government’s highway safety agency after two of its vehicles braked suddenly and were rear-ended by motorcyclists. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in documents posted on its website Monday that it will evaluate the automated driving system developed by Zoox. Both

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have filed a class-action complaint with the Vatican administration demanding better seniority, leave and overtime benefits. The complaint also alleges that staff face health and security risks due to cost-saving and apparent profit-generating initiatives at the museum, including overcrowding and reduced

NEW YORK (AP) — The fourth week of witness testimony in Donald Trump’s hush money trial could be a doozy: Michael Cohen is expected to finally take the stand on Monday. The long-anticipated testimony from Trump’s former lawyer and personal fixer would follow a breathtaking buildup by prosecutors of a case that ultimately hinges on

By JILL COLVIN Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic group is rolling out a new $140 million ad campaign that aims to chip away at Donald Trump’s support among one of his most loyal voting blocs: rural voters. The ads, from American Bridge 21st Century, will begin airing Monday in the northern battleground

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the Nordic and Baltic cooperation is now “deeper than at any time in modern times,” underpinned by increasing security threats from Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. On Monday, Kristersson is hosting a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz and the Nordic prime ministers in

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has arrived  on a surprise visit to Russia-friendly Serbia, together with first lady Olena Zelenska. He held talks in Belgrade in a sign of warming relations between the two states. In his first visit to Serbia since the start of the Russian aggression on Ukraine in

By The Associated Press Israel’s leaders commemorated Memorial Day on Monday, a usually somber holiday that this year was almost entirely absorbed by the ongoing war in Gaza. At 11:00 A.M., sirens announced two minutes of silence, and a quadrant of four fighter planes then flew over Jerusalem and the surrounding areas. At a ceremony,

By GERALD IMRAY Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams in South Africa are searching for any survivors still trapped under rubble a week after an apartment building that was under construction collapsed. Their hopes were boosted over the weekend when one of the construction workers was found alive after six days

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank Group says it trimmed its losses for the fiscal year through March to about a quarter of the red ink it racked up a year earlier, as investment losses declined. SoftBank Group said Monday that its annual sales rose 2.8%, while losses

By MATT O’BRIEN AP Technology Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The voice Alexis “Lexi” Bogan had before last summer was exuberant. She loved to belt out Taylor Swift and Zach Bryan ballads in the car. She laughed all the time — even while corralling misbehaving preschoolers or debating politics with friends over a backyard fire

By EDNA TARIGAN Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Mount Ibu, a volcano in Indonesia’s North Maluku province, has erupted, spewing thick grey ash and dark clouds into the sky for five minutes. Officials said Monday that volcanic earthquakes at the mountain are still intense so there is a possibility of another eruption. After an

By ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops are locked in intense battles with the advancing Russian army in two border areas, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while the death toll from a Russian apartment building collapse blamed on Ukrainian shelling rose to 15. Zelenskyy said “fierce battles” are taking place near the

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rwanda has denied claims by neighboring Burundi that it armed a rebel group that was accused of carrying out a grenade attack, as relations between the two countries continue to be strained. Burundi’s interior ministry blamed the grenade attack on Friday that injured 38 people on

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — An Australian judge has lifted a ban on the social media platform X showing Australians a video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church. The temporary ban was put in place on April 22, but the judge rejected the application from Australia’s eSafety Commission

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Georgia’s parliament green-lit a final vote on a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union, after police dispersed the latest protests against it over the weekend. The bill would require media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to

BERLIN (AP) — A court has ruled that Germany’s domestic intelligence agency was justified in designating the far-right Alternative for Germany as a suspected case of extremism, rejecting an appeal from the opposition party. The administrative court in Muenster ruled in favor of the BfV intelligence agency on Monday, upholding a 2022 decision by a

LONDON (AP) — London’s Metropolitan Police say three men have been charged with assisting Hong Kong intelligence services and with foreign interference. The men will appear at Westminster Magistrates’ Court charged under the National Security Act with assisting a foreign intelligence service. The head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command said Monday that police do

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The sharp interest rate hikes of the past two years will likely take longer than previously expected to bring down inflation, several Federal Reserve officials have said in recent comments, suggesting there may be few, if any, rate cuts this year. A major concern expressed by